IBM Lotus Sametime 8, the current version of IBM's popular enterprise communications and collaboration platform, represents a strategically important product for the company and one for which it has significant hopes in 2008. With respect to the ever-crowding Unified Communications (UC) market, Lotus Sametime is specifically designed to be more extensible to third-party plug-ins than competitive offerings.
This research note includes:
- A look at the impact that UC is having on voice infrastructure planning.
- An overview of the features of the IBM Lotus Sametime 8 platform.
- A comparison of IBM's platform with that of Microsoft, a key UC competitor.
Given its feature set, integration capabilities, and maturity as a platform, IBM Lotus Sametime 8 will appeal to many enterprises that are currently evaluating UC solutions. As a result, IT leaders not previously conversant with the Lotus Sametime platform should familiarize themselves with the solution.
